
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... Philosophical problems arise when we conceptualise the world and find that these conceptions fail to ‘make sense’ or ‘hang together’ in an objective sense (not because we lack information, nor because we have a subjective feeling of doubt). 4 Because they are conceptual, philosophical problems remai ...
... Philosophical problems arise when we conceptualise the world and find that these conceptions fail to ‘make sense’ or ‘hang together’ in an objective sense (not because we lack information, nor because we have a subjective feeling of doubt). 4 Because they are conceptual, philosophical problems remai ...
Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... Mukerji approached Indian idealism through the Advaita Vedānta school. He focused there on the work of Śankara and Yajñavalkya, as well as Ramanujan, Vāvcaspati, and Prabhākara. He also attended to Buddhist idealism, particularly that of Dignāga, Vasubandhu, and Uddyotakara and to its Buddhist Mādhy ...
... Mukerji approached Indian idealism through the Advaita Vedānta school. He focused there on the work of Śankara and Yajñavalkya, as well as Ramanujan, Vāvcaspati, and Prabhākara. He also attended to Buddhist idealism, particularly that of Dignāga, Vasubandhu, and Uddyotakara and to its Buddhist Mādhy ...
How do logic and argument play a role in developing humour
... character is looking after the blue shirts place while he is away some place and the second premise is that he kills the fish by accident while cleaning. The conclusion is that it may not have been accidental but on purpose as he ended up eating the fish. This is unexpected and is meant to shock you ...
... character is looking after the blue shirts place while he is away some place and the second premise is that he kills the fish by accident while cleaning. The conclusion is that it may not have been accidental but on purpose as he ended up eating the fish. This is unexpected and is meant to shock you ...
CHAPTER-V The Orient in Henry David Thoreau`s writings
... remained wholly the child of his age in regarding the material world as a symbol of the spiritual.‖ (94) There is no other American writer, in his thinking, vision, insight and in his writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he b ...
... remained wholly the child of his age in regarding the material world as a symbol of the spiritual.‖ (94) There is no other American writer, in his thinking, vision, insight and in his writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he b ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... ‘intuition’ in philosophy is defective, which calls for a charitable reinterpretation of that defective discourse. Chapter 4 provides examples of cases where it is either possible to just drop ‘intuitively’ without loss, and other cases where it is just used as a hedge, viz. those uses where it indi ...
... ‘intuition’ in philosophy is defective, which calls for a charitable reinterpretation of that defective discourse. Chapter 4 provides examples of cases where it is either possible to just drop ‘intuitively’ without loss, and other cases where it is just used as a hedge, viz. those uses where it indi ...
Oratory like any other piece of literature is also an art-an art
... confluence of philosophies and spiritual treasure of India on one hand and the secular aspects and values of Indian culture on the other. A cumulative effect of the deep-seated and ideals- political, economic, secular and spiritual and the cultural heritage of India that formulated the mind naturall ...
... confluence of philosophies and spiritual treasure of India on one hand and the secular aspects and values of Indian culture on the other. A cumulative effect of the deep-seated and ideals- political, economic, secular and spiritual and the cultural heritage of India that formulated the mind naturall ...
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (19 November 1918 – 8 May 1993) was an eminent Indian Marxist philosopher. He made extensive contributions to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian philosophy. His most outstanding work in this regard was Lokayata: A Study in Ancient Indian Materialism, the compilation and exposition of the ancient philosophy of Lokayata, liberating it from distortions that it had suffered at the hands of its opponents. He is also acclaimed for his researches in the history of science and scientific method in ancient India, especially his 1977 book Science and Society in Ancient India on the ancient physicians Charaka and Sushruta.